Art of Romania
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Art of Romania encompasses the artists and artistic movements in Romania
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
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Romanian contemporary and modern artists
- Almaşan Virgil
- Adela Andea
- George Apostu
- Corneliu BabaCorneliu BabaCorneliu Baba was a Romanian painter, primarily a portraitist, but also known as a genre painter and an illustrator of books.-Early life:Having first studied under his father, the academic painter Gheorghe Baba, Baba studied briefly at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bucharest, but did not receive a...
- Calin Baban
- Sabin BălaşaSabin BalasaSabin Bălaşa was a contemporary Romanian painter. His works are described by himself as belonging to cosmic Romanticism.He completed his high school education at Frații Buzești High School in Craiova in 1950....
- Horia BerneaHoria Bernea-External links:** Editura Liternet: , ISBN: 973-8475-14-7...
- Traian Brădean
- Constantin BrâncuşiConstantin BrancusiConstantin Brâncuşi was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris...
- Valeriu Boborelu
- Remus Botarro, scupltor
- Anca Boeriu
- Vasile Brătulescu
- Victor BraunerVictor BraunerVictor Brauner was a Romanian Jewish painter of surrealistic images.-Early life:He was born in Piatra Neamţ, the son of a timber manufacturer who subsequently settled in Vienna with his family for a few years. It is there that young Victor attended elementary school...
- Nicolae Comanescu
- Andrei Cadere
- Vasile Chinschi, painter
- Silvia CambirSilvia CambirSilvia Cambir is a Romanian Expressionist painter, portraitist, and book illustrator.Born in Hanul Conache, Galaţi County, Cambir studied at the University of Bucharest Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts under Camil Ressu. She became a member of the Union...
- Henri CatargiHenri CatargiHenri Catargi was a renowned Romanian painter from Braşov.-Biography:Born on December 6, 1894 in Bucharest, Henri Catargi would eventually become one of the top Romanian artists, a major influence in the national 20th century world of arts and an inspiration for many young generations of Romanian...
- Ştefan CâlţiaStefan CâltiaŞtefan Câlţia is a contemporary Romanian painter.Born in Braşov, he attended the Arts and Music high school in Timişoara from 1959 to 1963, having Julius Podlipny as a teacher...
- Alexandru CiucurencuAlexandru CiucurencuAlexandru Ciucurencu was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter.A collection of Ciucurencu's paintings can be seen in Dr. Frasier Crane's apartment in the sitom Frasier, in the episode "The Guilt Trippers" .-External links:**...
- Maria Constantinescu
- Viorel Cute-Petric
- Horia DamianHoria DamianHoria Damian is a Romanian painter and sculptor.He enrolled at the School of Architecture in Bucharest in 1941, that same year he made his debut at the Salonul Official de Pictura at Sala Dalles in Bucharest. He had his first one-man show at the Ateneul Roman in Bucharest in 1942 and was awarded...
- Eugen DrăguţescuEugen DragutescuEugen Drăguţescu was a famed Romanian painter and graphic artist...
- Nataliţa Dumitrescu
- Sorin Dumitrescu
- Corneliu Dumitriu
- George Filipescu
- Dimitrie Gavrilean
- Ion Gheorghiu
- Marin Gherasim
- Ion GrigorescuIon GrigorescuIon Grigorescu is a Romanian painter, was one of the first Romanian conceptual artists and advocates of anti-art, postulating a radical consolidation of artistic activities with quotidian life...
- Lucian GrigorescuLucian GrigorescuLucian Grigorescu was a Romanian post-impressionist painter.In 1948, he was elected to the Romanian Academy. -External links:*...
- Octav Grigorescu
- Peter Iakobi
- Marcel Iancu,
- Sorin IlfoveanuSorin IlfoveanuSorin Ilfoveanu is a Romanian painter,designer and university teacher.-Formation:* 1953-1964 attends the classes of “I...
- Ion Isaila
- Alexandru Istrati
- Ştefan LuchianStefan LuchianȘtefan Luchian or Lukian was a Romanian painter, famous for his landscapes and still life works.-Early life:He was born in Ștefănești, a village of Botoșani County, as the son of Major Dumitru Luchian and of Elena Chiriacescu. The Luchian family moved to Bucharest in 1873 and his mother desired...
- Teodor Mazilu
- Wanda Mihuleac
- Teodora Moisescu-Stendl
- Georgeta Năpăruş
- Paul NeaguPaul NeaguPaul Neagu was an internationally important British-Romanian artist, working in diverse media such as drawing, sculpture, performance art and watercolor...
- Vasile Pop Negresteanu
- Ion Nicodim
- Ion Pacea
- Constantin Pacea
- Neculai PăduraruNeculai PaduraruNeculai Păduraru is a Romanian sculptor and painter.He studied at the Institute of Fine Art in Bucharest under Paul Vasilescu, graduating in 1975. Păduraru belonged to a generation of sculptors that reacted to Constantin Brâncuşi’s work with a figurative vision inspired by ancient Mediterranean...
- Theodor PalladyTheodor PalladyTheodor Pallady was a Romanian painter.-Biography:Pallady was born in Iaşi, but at a young age, his family moved to Dresden, where he studied engineering at the Dresden University of Technology between 1887 and 1889. At the same time, he studied art with Erwin Oehme, who, recognising his artistic...
- Mihai Peiter
- Stefan PelmusStefan PelmusŞtefan Pelmuş is a contemporary Romanian painter born August 19, 1949 in Valea Calugareasca. Pelmus studied under Ion Salisteanu si Ilie Pavel and is a graduate of the Nicolae Grigorescu Fine Arts Institute in Bucharest where he currently lives and works...
- Gheorghe PetraşcuGheorghe PetrascuGheorghe Petraşcu was a Romanian painter. He won numerous prizes throughout his lifetime and had his paintings exhibited posthumously at the Paris International Exhibition and the Venice Biennale. He was the brother of N. Petraşcu, a literary critic and novelist.-External links:**...
- Camil RessuCamil RessuCamil Ressu was a Romanian painter and academic, one of the most significant art figures of Romania.-Early life and career:Born in Galaţi, Ressu originated from an Aromanian family that migrated to Romania from Macedonia at the start of the 19th century. His father, Constantin Ressu, who was a...
- Dumitru RusuDumitru RusuDumitru Rusu is a Romanian painter whose artistic activity draws inspiration from the rural charm and folklore of Bukovina, where he resides. Born in Suceava on November 6, 1938, he graduated from the Institute of Art in Cluj-Napoca and has had numerous exhibitions both in Romania and in other...
- Ion Saliştean
- Ion State
- Ion Stendl
- Valeriu Şuşnea
- Florin Stoiciu
- George ŞtefănescuGeorge StefanescuGeorge Ştefănescu was a contemporary Romanian painter. From 1989 to 2007 he lived in Lüdinghausen, Germany....
- Sorina Şuşnea
- Cristina Tamăs
- Napoleon Tiron
- Nicolae TonitzaNicolae TonitzaNicolae Tonitza was a Romanian painter, engraver, lithographer, journalist and art critic. Drawing inspiration from Post-impressionism and Expressionism, he had a major role in introducing modernist guidelines to local art.-Biography:...
- Ion ŢuculescuIon TuculescuIon Ţuculescu was a Romanian expressionist and abstract oil painter, although professionally he worked as a biologist and physician. His artwork became well-known posthumously, when, in the spring of 1965, a major retrospective exhibition revealed him as one of the important post-World War II...
- Grigore Vasile
- Dimitrie PaciureaDimitrie PaciureaDimitrie Paciurea – 14 July 1932) was a Romanian sculptor. His representational and symbolic style contrasts strongly to the more abstract style of his contemporary and co-national Constantin Brâncuşi....
, sculptor - Nicolae GrigorescuNicolae GrigorescuNicolae Grigorescu was one of the founders of modern Romanian painting.-Biography:He was born in Pitaru, Dâmboviţa County, Wallachia. In 1843 the family moved to Bucharest. At a young age , he became an apprentice at the workshop of the painter Anton Chladek and created icons for the church of...
, painter - Constantin BrâncuşiConstantin BrancusiConstantin Brâncuşi was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris...
, sculptor - Tristan TzaraTristan TzaraTristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement...
, contemporary artist, the master of DadaDadaDada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a... - Horia BerneaHoria Bernea-External links:** Editura Liternet: , ISBN: 973-8475-14-7...
, contemporary artist - Paul NeaguPaul NeaguPaul Neagu was an internationally important British-Romanian artist, working in diverse media such as drawing, sculpture, performance art and watercolor...
, contemporary artist, the master of the hyphen sculptures